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Plants to identify please (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Ross Ahmed
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1. A grass.
2. A burdock. I would say probably greater burdock from the clumped flowerheads - except that there's not much of it N of the Humber.
3. Maybe a composite.
4. Looks like Canadian fleabane.
5. Leaf-shape more like silver birch than downy birch - but helpful to see clear photos of leaf-shape and lower part of trunk.
6. Some robust yellow composite. I'd guess something more like a hawksbeard than a groundsel.
2. A burdock. I would say probably greater burdock from the clumped flowerheads - except that there's not much of it N of the Humber.
3. Maybe a composite.
4. Looks like Canadian fleabane.
5. Leaf-shape more like silver birch than downy birch - but helpful to see clear photos of leaf-shape and lower part of trunk.
6. Some robust yellow composite. I'd guess something more like a hawksbeard than a groundsel.
Agree 3 is a good candidate for Bilbao Fleabane, Erigeron floribundus. 4 is so spent I don't think we could say more than Erigeron sp, but may well be E. floribundus, which is becoming a widespread neophyte.
I'm not convinced the birch is Silver Birch as I can't see any of the usually distinctive black diamond-shaped marks on the bark, but as Butty said it isn't a great image. Also worth noting the hybrid between Silver & Downy Birch is quite common, so always a possibility.
I'm not sure how useful it is including photos of dead/decomposing plants to get an ID? Maybe wait until you get some fresh growth next year?
I'm not convinced the birch is Silver Birch as I can't see any of the usually distinctive black diamond-shaped marks on the bark, but as Butty said it isn't a great image. Also worth noting the hybrid between Silver & Downy Birch is quite common, so always a possibility.
I'm not sure how useful it is including photos of dead/decomposing plants to get an ID? Maybe wait until you get some fresh growth next year?
